Yakoob on 12/10/2007 at 07:07
Quote Posted by RocketMan
...he accepts her offer.
"It's time to ch-ch-choose, insect"
:D
Aja on 12/10/2007 at 08:04
Quote Posted by AR Master
I SUGGESTED HIS
man you just wasted this joke in the system shock forum
in comm chat there'd be accolades :grr:
Mercurius on 12/10/2007 at 15:30
I rate this a 4.5/5 on the OHHH BUUUURN scale.
You know, theoretically it might not be impossible to implement a multiple ending system in Shock 2. At the very least, replacing the ending would be child's play were anyone willing to do the work of rendering it out.
solaris on 13/10/2007 at 12:42
I actually like the ending. Or at least the script. The bit with goggles is just badly executed.
The very end with Suarez, Rebecca and Shodan rocks. Still gives me the creeps after all these years.
Peanuckle on 17/10/2007 at 03:15
I think that the idea of SHODAN being capable, let alone willing, to fuse herself with a human body is sketchy at best. IMO, she would hide the vital parts of her code on the computers in the escape pod computers, so that she could rebuild herself on Earth like she rebuilt herself from the processing component on Tau Ceti.
Kolya on 17/10/2007 at 05:13
For one thing that would have been very hard to visualize. For another it would have just left the player thinking: "Oh right, I could have told you that shooting the screen won't do anything. But it wasn't my idea now, was it?!"
Andreus on 10/11/2007 at 20:27
AR Master's idea of parts of the ship flashing between the past and the present, showing the dream and the reality, the then and the now, with voice over from Goggles works for me. I really like it. Characters that Goggles heavily identified with (Polito, Delacroix, Bayliss) should stand out from the crowd. Goggles is recording a log, voicing what he's kept quiet for the whole of the game. He's pretty much alone on two broken, barely functional ships with no idea how to run them. The Many is pretty much gone, apart from the odd hybrid now functioning entirely on instinct, that will eventually die without the hive mind, and SHODAN is gone - probably.
Goggles bitterly remarks on Korenchkin, the man whose weakness and greed pretty much slaughtered the entire crew, and laments the death of Diego, who had tried so hard to escape the guilt he had inherited from his father, but had to die to accomplish that. After noting that there'll always be things, if not by name, by nature like SHODAN and The Many, he notes the personal hope that there'll always be someone that can stand up to them. He then offers a profuse apology to UNN and TriOptimum, stating "I know this ship was your dream. But in the end, I think you'll understand why I did this. There are just some things I think we weren't meant to know. I don't know if I'm the right man to decide that, but if I don't make that decision, I don't see who else will"
He then orders the log to be sent to Earth, and after the transmission goes out, he crosses himself and, with a sigh, activates the Von Braun's self-destruct sequence. He climbs into an escape pod, and starts fiddling with the controls. Recording the final snippet of his personal log, Goggles states "The end is coming - I just wish I could think of something witty to say". The camera pans outside the Von Braun, with the coiled remains of The Many floating nearby. As the escape pod speeds away from the dented hulls of the two ships, there's a gigantic explosion.
We then see another escape pod, devoid of activity, with Tommy and Rebecca in their cryopods. One of the computers flicks on, with a recording from Rebecca. Tommy and Rebecca, having escaped from the Von Braun, have recorded some logs into the computer "just in case we don't make it". She expresses her profound relief that they were able to escape, despite all odds. Eerily, she echoes a little bit of Goggles' dialogue about the sacrifices that were made on behalf of the crew. But she brightens up a little. The camera pans away from the terminal on which the recording is playing, with Rebecca's voice still echoing through the pod, over to a small pile of objects "liberated" from the Von Braun. One of them appears to be something like a security card. The face displayed on it is Polito's. But it flickers briefly, the image briefly turning green. A familiar, trademark babble is heard...
Gforce on 11/11/2007 at 03:06
just remember, there's no air in space so we would see the explosion but not hear it. Love your idea though.
catbarf on 11/11/2007 at 15:03
Quote Posted by Gforce
just remember, there's no air in space so we would see the explosion but not hear it. Love your idea though.
In fact, an explosion wouldn't make any sort of big fireball due to lack of air.
Harvester on 11/11/2007 at 16:03
Quote Posted by Gforce
just remember, there's no air in space so we would see the explosion but not hear it. Love your idea though.
You wouldn't hear it in real life, but you do hear it in virtually every science fiction movie except 2001: A Space Odyssey, and in virtually every SF game as well.
